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What did the Coast Miwok do for ceremonies?

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The Coast and Lake Miwok held many dances during the year. Sometimes a large dance house was built for a special ceremony. Dances were held to celebrate the capture of bear, deer, or salmon; to mark a young person's becoming an adult; to install a new headman. In some ceremonies, the dancers would take on the role of a bear or a coyote. Sometimes only the men danced; other times women and children participated, with a woman sometimes being the head dancer.Dance costumes were made from the skin of a brown or white pelican, cut in such a way that the wings made the sleeves of the costume. Feather headdresses were worn. Foot drums, flutes, cocoon rattles and split-stick clappers made music for the dances.